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July 22, 2015 I'm going to start today to record on a daily basis whatever happens to strike my fancy. So, it is a very cool breezy day. I just posted 5 short book reviews to The Monthly Reading Challenge. I'm suppose to put away some winter wood today from the woodpile outside but I'm playing hookey from work to write so starting this blog will get done. I'm having a daily fight with a flock of English Sparrows that are trying to take over my barn. They are making a terrible mess so they have to go. I have destroyed several nests so far they don't leave but they get out of the barn when I am around. I'm just starting the fight so I guess I don't know how far I have to go to discourage them. I'm trying not to spread myself to thin on WDC because I find so many things that are interesting here and I am trying to work on a new story. I really enjoy sitting at my desk with a cup of tea and reading blogs on WDC. |
What product would you stockpile if you found out it would never be sold again? (If the product you choose is perishable, imagine, for the purposes of this question, that the product would remain usable/edible forever.)  Stockpile It or Use It  I'm having a lot of trouble with this one. Good 100 percent cotton, cushioned socks would be something I would hoard (oh yeah, you said stockpile). I thought about canned salmon but then I thought, maybe, I could go fishing so the next necessity is a good pair of cushioned socks. Maybe even wool ones. I figure I could make shoes out of what ever is handy, tree bark, braided grass stalks, or leather like moccasins, if available. In my 30's when I was knitting and crocheting for my children I learned to turn a heel(a knitting term) and put thumbs and fingers in woolen gloves. Even then, you have to have the material to make them. Which won't be available quickly plus, is internet buying still going to be available? I can spin wool into yarn even with out a spinning wheel, I could probably make a spindle. But, alas, I stopped raising sheep in the 1990's. And, for the above reasons sheep farmers are probably going to stockpile sheep. If it's a case of a product hard to get. Stockpile? Is that a synonym for buy out the supply? Over the many years of reading, I've read a lot of stories about what happens when for one reason or another society fails to maintain it's hold on a truly civilized type of government. At first these stories made me nervous. (I was in my teens reading science fiction.) I thought a lot about how I would maintain my life. Now, I kind of look at what causes chaos when I read about civilization failing. Just one product doesn't sound right? Why would just one product become unavailable? If, we can't buy from China because of the Corona Virus, a lot of products may become scarce? At least until some factories and farms catch up to the need. My paternal Grandmother told me how bad it was raising children and living on a farm during the World War. I was in a history class in 2000 (not sure what year I took this class?) The history teacher was an immigrant. I was about age 58. The teacher was explaining some of the problems people from his former country were up against and how difficult it was to accurately give a good description to students who rarely see the needs that are not met in other societies. Anyway, he stated something like, The USA could eventually experience a chaos scenario where needs were not met or the government would be erratic and chaos would happen country wide. A young student jumped up from her chair and shouted, "This is the USA, that isn't ever going to happen here." She stomped from the room and never returned to the class. It's difficult for me to visualize one thing needing to be stockpiled. If, you need one thing it would be like dominoes, it would lead to something else then something else. I know people who are stockpiling meals, water, and other necessities because they think it may get really bad in this country, really soon. I'm right now thinking of fiction stories I've read, where it was dangerous to walk into a mall looking to scrounge what ever is available to stay alive, because others are just as needy and fighting over what ever hasn't been stolen all ready. Maybe someone else will have a take on this I haven't thought of??? I'm thinking maybe of buying some new socks this week end?  ![Merit Badge in Encore! Encore!
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| Write about a recent success. *Ha* Yours or someone else’s - your choice! Success Everywhere In 2020 success is literally everywhere. An article published March 2, 2020 talks about the need for more women in the EU to be encouraged to take up jobs in the Scientific front. EQUAL-IST is an EU funded project looking at reasons why there are only a 13 per cent involvement of women in science related work. The article gives voice to the need for gender equality and the use of women's minds in fields that are open to new ideas and abilities. You can read the full article here:https://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?&artid=51905&caller=FP I found articles about how waste byproducts are being used to make chemicals, make vineyards hardy against disease, protect fish farming from disease in livestock and pollution in tanks, help buildings to be more energy efficient, blade-less alternatives to wind turbines, developing vaccines to protect livestock from disease and parasites, and so many others I could not read them all. Articles relating to the above subjects and how different teams are researching the answers to these questions are from: https://ec.europa.eu/info/index_en. These articles are specifically related to the EU and researchers involved in selected countries. If I keep looking I'm sure I will find more countries involved. Last year I read an article about a team of researchers working in Israel to solve the problem of waste. Their innovative ideas were being put into practical use in other countries as well. In the USA a group of people have built a plant that turns plastic water bottles and milk jugs into a viable house insulation. We hear about the devastation constantly but successes in these fields will hold out a helping hand to every country as 2020 and beyond works for the good of the earth and humans that live here. Maybe this isn't what you expected but when it comes to success. There is a lot out there we don't hear about on a regular basis. To all these researchers I say: ![Merit Badge in Job Well Done
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Use the following words as inspiration for your entry: inquiry, curiosity, investigation, suspicion, and clandestine. (You need not use the words in your entry, but if you do, please highlight them in bold or a different color.) {/center}   {b}Inquiry:“Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don't aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the deity in his soul.”― Michael Bassey Johnson (Goodreads)  Curiosity:{i"}We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths". Walt DisneyRead more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/walt-disney-quotes  Investigation:"Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. Any man who is afraid to have his doctrine investigated is not only a coward but a hypocrite.”― Robert G. Ingersoll, Famous Speeches Complete (Goodreads)  Suspicion:“Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.”― Criss Jami, Healology (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/suspicion)  Clandestine: “The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings...Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe...no war ever posed a greater threat to our security. If you are awaiting a finding of "clear and present danger," then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent...For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.”― President John F. Kennedy tags: 1961, april-27-1961, clandestine, covert, future, government, hide, jfk, john-f-kennedy, opposed, opposition, past, present, president, ruthless, secreat-oaths, secrecy, secret-societies, secret-society-speech, shadow-government, speech, u-s-government, u-s-president, usa (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/clandestine) James Morcan “Any time a secret group usurps the collective will of the people, it’s wrong. Period.” ― James Morcan, The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy tags: clandestine, justice, secret-societies(https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/clandestine) One of the reasons I like to find good quotes is because it shows me that there are people out there, writers and thinkers, who are writing down good thoughts for others to turn over and examine at their leisure. Goodreads and many other places can run search engines through the many writers in life and tell you what they are thinking. What they are writing about, in fiction and nonfiction. There was an article on the web yesterday that expounded about how the use of cell phones was ruining a lake in Mongolia. Environmentally speaking a lot of technology is at fault for pollution. The answer is not to stop technology but find the way to keep the freedom technology brings to us and erase the pollution. Moving On |
If you could be paid for doing anything you wanted full time, what would you do? When you were a child, what did you dream of doing when you grew up? Then, take some time to research “unconventional” jobs (ie. hot air balloonist, deep sea invertebrate researcher, professional table tennis master, etc) and share one that you think you would be good at or would be fun to try. When you were a child, what did you dream of doing when you grew up? It depends on the age? Early on I wanted to be a cowgirl. My bicycle was always trigger. (a famous palomino owned by Roy Rogers.) Later in childhood if the cat did not kill a red squirrel I would take the injured red squirrel put it in a shoe box and try to heal it. Never worked. One day my dad told me I should have let the cat kill the squirrel because I was probably prolonging its pain. So, I never tried to heal them any more. As a teenager after working on the school newspaper and studying high school English I wanted to be a journalist. This was probably a good thing for me because I had so many questions that no one ever answered. Hense, my love of the information age. Unfortunately, answering one question just lead to another question. I had a great aunt who was an osteopath in a time when that was kind of unusual, I guess. I was in first grade the year after my mom died. At school we went home for lunch and I would call her on the phone at lunch time. We talked about lots of things. I became interested in being a Dr. or thought I was. Anyway, I told my aunt who took care of me I wanted to be a Doctor. My Dad's family spits out Doctors, Lawyers, and teachers on a regular basis so not so far fetched. Later, I shocked my aunt by stating my intention to become a veterinarian. She was not happy. I was not old enough to understand the difference in medicine plus, I was kind of duh about life and learning. When I actually went to college I told this story to my advisor who was prodding me about what I would eventually chose as my major. He assured me Veterinary medicine was not out of the question. But, I eventually chose journalism . In my early 20's I took an accredited course in Veterinary assistance, which had a lot of biology and human anatomy with it. Since, I've always had a lot to do with horses, dogs, cats, and parrots I was following some vague line to my real interests. I actually became a dog groomer in my early 20's. A friend I rode and showed horses with was a dog groomer and taught me how to groom professionally. Mostly, I was alone in my endeavors. I had lots of child care people, aunts from both sides of my family and a step mother. But, no special person to keep my path from being erratic. Paid full time? I've had some jobs outside of the home. Worked in a Donut shop, a furniture factory, cleaned a pizza parlor, worked in a kennel. The job I liked best of that bunch was a kennel job in a ritzy kennel with all the bells and whistles for dog care and grooming. I cleaned kennels, fed dogs, and played with dogs all day. For myself I taught horse back riding, raised sheep and dairy goats, and groomed dogs. Now? Full Time? Who knows. Where could I work that I could impart all this knowledge I've accumulated? After looking at some of the unusual jobs out there, I don't want to repossess planes or yachts for a living but it might be fun to interview someone who did. . I don't have credentials to stare at the planets all day.75, I just found some job sites for people over 70. This is interesting .I'm not sure I could stand a full time job guess I'll surf jobs for awhile. |
Write about the practice of making lists. Does list-making stifle creativity, or enhance it? When working on a big project, does making a list help organize your thinking, or cause you to feel more overwhelmed? Are you a habitual list maker, and if so, what do you list? Making Lists  I've always been a list maker. Many times people have made a big deal about list makers, but I think they are probably angry, that people who make lists get things done. Just this morning I jotted down 4 places on the web I need to go today. In this case I need a reminder. I experienced a laughable thing about making lists when I tried to take on the list challenge, which I found one day in Andre The Blog Monkey's Banana Bar's website.This was a couple of years ago. I failed the challenge. It was an extreme list making challenge and I just could not make the lists in time allotted. Now, K gave me Alexa Dot for Christmas. List making is a breeze. Don't worry about anyone hacking my info either. I will shop where I shop, buy what is on the lists, and if they want to watch me shop OK. Just get out of my way while I fill the empty cupboard. On any new project I may be overwhelmed until I make the list. Although, I don't enjoy outlining any new story, until I get into some of the action and go back to round out characters and events. So, I kind of classify outlining with list making. Really are they two different types of lists? K is out there more than me anyway so he does a lot of the shopping with my lists. Cell phones are great for lists. Alexa throws everything onto my phone, so when I shop I just open the list. No matter how long ago I put it on there or how jumbled the list was from different needs, it's available. Also, if the TV commercial gives you an idea for a book to read from an author interview or a new product to learn about, my quick memo, is a good place to store the info. I always think I should look into things that I might buy someday even if I can never afford any of it. Good List Making is an Art! Quote:“Before you eat the elephant, make sure you know what parts you want to eat.” Reference: To Do List Quotes (19 quotes) - Goodreads www.goodreads.com › quotes › tag › to-do-lis |
| Yesterday was February 29th - Leap Day! The reason we have this monthly extension of our shortest month is to synchronise the Gregorian calendar with the solar year – without it we would lose six hours every year. *Shock2* In your entry today, write about the phenomenon of leap years and any facts you want to share. Here’s mine: People born on Leap Day are called Leaplings. *Laugh* Do you know any Leaplings? How did you spend the bonus hours of 2020? Did you make the most of them? Awesome Extra Days Some Leap year facts: 1. There are 1/1461 chances of being born on leap day. 2.The first warrants for arrest went out on February 29,1692 for the Salem witchcraft trials in Massachusetts. (yes I to am asking why? More facts needed?) Only info I have says most were women who by some chance owned property that higher ups in government wanted to confiscate? It's always over land? 3.(My favorite) Lord of the Rings: Hobbits February, called Solmath, has 30 days. The Hobbit calendar celebrates twelve 30-day months every year. (I wonder which planet they are on? Which sun is theirs?) 4. The last two digits of a year divisible by 4 = a leap year. As for my day 02/29/2020, I spent it reading the second book of a two book series, called Bob and Sue. It's an audio book about hiking and campers in the wonderful USA parks. While the audio played I colored Mandalas, siting in a chair engulfed in a warm blanket and drank warm herbal tea. The weather was in the teens. It snowed all day. When I disturbed myself to do morning and evening chores, yes outside. I stomped through 2.5 foot of snow to fill bird feeders and feed my pony. Today, warmer temps, sunshine and snow plowing made the day easier to take. ![Merit Badge in Point of View
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